Discovered 1998 May 22 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.

Anthony Peacock (b. 1950) was project scientist for the ESA Exosat and XMM-Newton missions. A leading expert on detectors for use in high-energy astrophysics, he has also developed the S-CAM, a cryogenic camera having an ultrafast photon-counting detector, for groundbased optical astronomy.

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